1 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
6 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
7 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
8 * The default tarballs are now .tar.xz
11 * Multiple files are supported from RAR files
12 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
13 * DVB-S scanning support
14 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
17 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
20 * id3tag plugin is removed (superseded by taglib).
21 * Ogg seeking improvements
24 * The telnet interface has been removed in the favour of the lua one
25 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements
26 * Qt: port to Mac platform
29 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
32 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
35 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streamin (iphone-stuff),
36 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
37 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
38 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
39 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
40 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
43 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
44 --------------------------------
47 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
49 * Fix folders opening from the interface
52 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
53 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
56 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
57 --------------------------------
60 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
61 * fix for podcasts parsing
62 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
65 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
66 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
69 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
70 * fix m3u playlists exports
73 * fix video autoresize behaviour
76 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
79 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
82 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
85 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
88 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
89 --------------------------------
92 * Avformat fps displaying fix
93 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
96 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
97 of mono streams, especially on Windows
100 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
101 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
102 * fix console output encoding
104 Interface and extensions:
105 * Youtube and other scripts updates
106 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
109 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
110 --------------------------------
113 * New capabilities for libVLC:
114 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
115 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
116 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
117 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
118 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
119 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
120 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
121 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
122 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
123 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
124 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
125 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
126 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
127 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
128 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
132 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
133 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
134 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
135 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
136 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
139 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
142 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
143 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
144 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
148 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
151 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
152 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
153 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
156 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
157 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
158 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
159 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
162 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
163 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
166 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
167 --------------------------------
169 Important changes for users:
170 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
171 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
173 Important changes for packagers:
174 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
175 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
176 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
177 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
178 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
180 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
182 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
183 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
184 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
185 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
186 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
189 * Support for the sftp protocol
190 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
191 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
192 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
193 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
194 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
197 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
198 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
199 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
201 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
202 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
203 * Invmem module improvements
204 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
205 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
206 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
207 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
208 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
209 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
210 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
211 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
212 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
213 * Support for VP8 codec
214 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
217 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
218 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
219 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
220 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
221 * Various EGP improvements
222 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
223 * Metadata and cover art improvements
226 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
227 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
228 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
229 * Podcast images are now displayed
232 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
233 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
234 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
235 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
236 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
237 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
238 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
239 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
240 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
241 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
242 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
245 * New content extensions lua framework
248 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
249 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
250 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
251 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
252 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
253 * NEON assembly audio converter module
254 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
257 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
258 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
259 * Service discovery based on libudev
260 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
263 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
264 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
265 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
266 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
267 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
268 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
269 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
272 * New smem module, streaming to memory
273 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
274 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
277 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
279 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
280 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
283 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
286 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
287 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
288 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
289 by Andy Matuschak et al.
290 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
291 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
292 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
295 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
296 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
299 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
300 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
301 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
305 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
306 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
307 * Improved Solaris port
310 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
311 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
314 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
315 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
316 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
317 * transrate: broken since too long
318 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
319 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
320 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
321 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
322 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
323 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
324 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
325 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
326 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
327 * cddax: use cdda instead.
328 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
329 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
330 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
331 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
334 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
335 --------------------------------
338 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
340 Decoders/Packetizers:
341 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
344 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
345 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
346 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
347 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
348 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
351 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
352 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
355 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
356 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
359 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
360 and Walloon translations updated
361 * Sinhala translation started
364 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
365 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
368 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
369 --------------------------------
372 * SubRip extra styles improvements
373 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
376 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
379 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
380 increase performance and fix x264 issues
383 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
384 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
385 Russian, Slovak translation updates
386 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
389 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
390 --------------------------------
393 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
394 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
397 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
398 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
401 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
402 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
405 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
408 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
409 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
412 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
413 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
416 * New Walloon translation
417 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
420 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
421 --------------------------------
424 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
425 regressions in most popular drivers
426 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
429 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
430 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
431 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
434 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
435 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
438 * Update for appletrailers lua script
439 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
440 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
441 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
442 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
445 * New udev module for linux
448 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
451 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
454 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
455 --------------------------------
458 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
459 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
460 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
463 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
464 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
467 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
468 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
471 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
474 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
475 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
476 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
477 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
480 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
481 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
482 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
483 - no support for Goom and SDL
484 - limited text rendering support
485 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
488 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
489 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
490 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
491 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
492 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
493 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
494 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
495 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
496 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
500 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
503 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
506 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
507 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
508 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
509 Arabic and French translation updates
512 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
513 --------------------------------
516 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
517 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
518 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
519 * Fix Dailymotion access script
520 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
521 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
524 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
525 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
528 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
529 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
530 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
533 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
536 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
537 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
540 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
541 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
542 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
543 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
544 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
545 * Fix various crashes
548 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
550 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
553 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
554 ---------------------------------
558 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
559 See 'Access:' for more info.
560 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
563 * Instantaneous pausing
564 * Frame-by-Frame playback
565 * Finer speed control
566 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
567 * Timeshift for most medias
568 * RTSP trickplay support
569 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
572 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
573 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
574 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
575 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
576 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
577 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
578 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
579 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
580 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
581 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
584 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
585 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
586 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
587 * Metadata for mod files are supported
588 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
589 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
590 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
593 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
594 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
597 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
598 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
599 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
600 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
601 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
602 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
603 * DVB scanning on linux
604 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
605 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
606 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
607 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
608 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
609 * MTP device access on Unix
610 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
611 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
614 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
615 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
616 Windows and Mac OS X.
619 * Export the playlist in HTML
620 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
621 * Better metadata handling and reading
623 Linux/Windows interface:
624 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
625 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
626 * Recently played items list
627 * Interface toolbar customizations
628 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
631 - Improvements on many dialogs
632 - New dialog for plugins listing
633 - Fixed-size mode for videos
634 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
635 * Better integration in GTK environments
638 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
639 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
640 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
641 * Additional usability improvements
644 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
645 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
646 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
647 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
648 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
651 * New Maemo port with:
652 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
653 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
656 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
659 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
660 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
661 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
662 * Support for latest iSight models
665 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
666 * Surround support for PulseAudio
669 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
670 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
671 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
672 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
673 The old image video output has been removed.
674 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
675 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
678 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
686 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
687 --------------------------------------
693 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
694 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
695 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
696 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
697 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
698 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
699 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
701 Various fixes to the following modules:
704 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
705 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
708 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
713 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
714 ---------------------------------
717 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
718 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
721 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
722 ---------------------------------
725 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
728 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
731 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
732 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
733 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
734 main controller window.
735 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
738 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
743 * Updates of other localizations
746 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
747 * Lots of small bugfixes.
748 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
749 * Telnet fixes on Windows
750 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
753 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
754 ---------------------------------
757 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
759 Bunch of small bugfixes.
762 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
763 --------------------------------
768 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
769 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
772 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
773 --------------------------------
775 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
776 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
779 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
782 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
783 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
786 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
787 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
790 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
791 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
792 * Various fixed in playlist
795 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
798 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
801 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
802 ------------------------------------
804 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
805 * Fixes several memory leaks.
808 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
809 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
810 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
813 * Stability fix for the video output.
816 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
817 --------------------------------
820 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
821 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
822 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
823 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
824 * Fixed update system bugs
825 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
828 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
829 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
830 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
831 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
832 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
833 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
834 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
835 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
836 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
837 modern Mac OS X versions
840 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
841 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
843 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
844 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
847 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
848 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
849 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
850 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
851 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
852 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
855 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
856 --------------------------------
858 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
859 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
863 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
864 --------------------------------
866 * Multiple bug fixes.
869 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
870 ---------------------------------
874 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
875 recent to work correctly
876 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
877 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
878 edit the ".hosts" file.
879 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
880 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
881 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
882 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
883 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
884 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
885 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
886 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
887 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
888 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
889 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
890 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
891 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
892 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
893 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
894 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
895 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
896 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
897 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
898 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
899 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
900 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
901 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
902 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
903 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
904 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
905 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
906 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
907 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
908 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
909 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
910 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
911 and postproc modules.
912 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
913 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
914 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
915 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
917 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
919 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
920 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
922 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
923 * Glide video output module has been removed.
929 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
931 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
932 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
935 * Vastly improved playlist support:
936 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
938 * Shoutcast TV listings
939 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
941 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
942 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
944 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
947 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
948 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
949 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
950 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
951 * JACK audio input support
952 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
953 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
954 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
955 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
956 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
957 * Experimental EyeTV access module
958 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
959 (available as a separate download).
960 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
962 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
963 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
964 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
966 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
967 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
970 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
971 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
972 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
973 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
975 * APEv1/2 tags support
976 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
977 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
979 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
980 * TiVo Series 2 support
981 * CD+G karaoke Files support
986 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
987 * Flash Screen Video support
988 * CamStudio Screen Video support
989 * DosBox Capture support
990 * Karl Morton's Video support
991 * limited atrac3 support
993 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
994 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
995 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
997 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
998 * NellyMoser ASAO support
999 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1000 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1001 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1004 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1005 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1006 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1007 * AQTitle subtitles support
1008 * MKV USF subtitles support
1009 * HTML-based subtitles support
1010 * MPSub subtitles support
1011 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1012 * MPL2 subtitles support
1013 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1014 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1015 * Realtext subtitle support
1016 * DKS subtitle support
1017 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1018 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1021 * Flash Screen Video support
1022 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1024 Video outputs and filters:
1025 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1026 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1027 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1028 * New puzzle video output filter
1029 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1030 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1032 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1033 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1034 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1035 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1036 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1037 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1038 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1039 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1040 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1041 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1042 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1043 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1044 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1045 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1047 Audio outputs and filters:
1048 * Replay gain support
1049 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1050 new scaletempo audio filter)
1051 * New spatializer audio filter
1052 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1055 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1056 * New RTP payload formats:
1057 * Speex voice audio codec
1058 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1059 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1060 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1061 * DCCP transport for RTP
1062 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1067 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1068 end-user suitable way.
1069 * Improved user interaction
1070 * Improved mouse gestures
1071 * Vastly improved Update checker
1072 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1074 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1075 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1077 * Improved video output features
1078 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1079 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1080 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1081 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1082 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1084 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1085 if libncursesw is available.
1086 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1087 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1088 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1090 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1091 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1092 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1093 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1094 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1095 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1096 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1097 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1100 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1101 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1102 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1105 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1106 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1107 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1108 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1109 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1110 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1113 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1114 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1124 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1125 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1126 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1129 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1130 ----------------------------------
1133 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1136 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1137 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1138 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1139 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1140 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1141 * Updated Polish translation
1144 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1145 ----------------------------------
1148 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1149 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1150 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1153 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1154 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1155 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1156 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1157 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1158 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1159 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1160 to an unexpected application termination
1161 * New Serbian translation
1162 * Updated Romanian translation
1165 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1166 ----------------------------------
1169 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1170 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1171 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1172 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1173 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1174 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1175 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1176 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1179 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1180 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1181 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1182 * Fixed AAC resampling
1183 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1184 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1187 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1188 ----------------------------------
1191 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1192 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1193 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1194 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1195 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1198 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1199 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1200 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1201 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1202 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1205 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1206 ----------------------------------
1209 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1210 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1213 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1214 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1215 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1216 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1218 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1222 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1225 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1228 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1231 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1234 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1235 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1236 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1237 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1238 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1240 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1241 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1242 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1243 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1246 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1249 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1250 ----------------------------------
1253 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1254 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1255 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1257 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1258 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1260 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1261 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1264 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1266 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1267 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1268 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1269 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1270 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1271 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1272 two different movies
1273 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1274 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1275 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1278 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1281 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1282 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1283 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1284 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1287 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1288 ----------------------------------
1290 Various bugfixes, notably:
1291 * Windows Vista compatibility
1292 * Cropping in Direct3D
1293 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1294 * RSS filter string overflow
1296 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1298 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1299 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1302 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1303 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1306 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1309 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1312 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1315 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1316 ----------------------------------
1318 Various bugfixes, notably:
1319 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1320 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1321 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1322 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1323 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1324 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1327 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1328 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1331 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1333 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1334 * Diverse usability improvements
1335 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1336 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1337 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1340 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1341 ---------------------------------
1343 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1344 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1347 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1350 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1351 --------------------------------
1354 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1357 * Support for RTSP authentication
1358 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1359 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1360 * ATSC support for DVB input
1361 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1362 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1363 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1366 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1367 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1368 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1369 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1370 * Matroska WavPack support
1371 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1372 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1373 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1376 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1377 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1378 * Improved libcaca support
1382 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1383 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1385 * Systray support in skins
1387 * Support for Apple Remote control
1388 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1389 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1390 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1391 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1393 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1396 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1397 Windows 9x/ME users:
1398 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1399 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1400 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1401 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1402 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1404 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1405 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1414 * Updates to the libvlc API
1415 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1418 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1419 --------------------------------
1422 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1423 * Support for downloading updates
1427 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1428 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1429 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1430 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1432 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1433 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1434 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1437 * Cook (Real audio) support
1439 Playlist / Services discovery:
1440 * XSPF playlist support
1442 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1445 * New JACK audio output
1448 * New video filters:
1449 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1450 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1451 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1452 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1453 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1454 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1457 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1460 * System to inform the user and request information
1461 - HTTP authentication
1465 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1466 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1467 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1470 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1471 - Improved playlist handling
1472 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1474 - Embedded Video output
1475 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1476 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1477 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1478 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1479 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1481 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1482 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1485 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1488 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1489 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1490 * Growl "Now playing" support
1493 * Ability to log to syslog
1494 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1497 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1499 * A bit more automatic testing
1502 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1503 ---------------------------------
1506 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1507 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1510 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1511 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1514 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1517 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1518 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1524 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1527 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1528 --------------------------------
1531 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1535 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1536 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1537 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1540 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1541 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1542 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1543 * GnomeVFS input module
1544 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1545 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1548 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1549 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1550 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1553 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1554 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1560 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1561 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1564 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1565 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1566 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1569 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1571 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1572 - New extended controls panel
1573 - New bookmarks window
1574 - Fixed playlist sorting
1575 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1577 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1578 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1579 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1580 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1584 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1585 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1587 - Include macro to include other files
1591 * Should now work outside IE as well
1594 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1597 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1598 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1601 The following languages were added:
1605 * Simplified Chinese
1606 The following languages were re-added:
1610 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1611 --------------------------------
1614 * Rewrite of the playlist
1616 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1617 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1618 * Preferences improvements:
1619 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1620 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1622 * Core image manipulation support
1623 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1624 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1625 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1626 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1627 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1628 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1629 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1630 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1631 * Access filter architecture
1632 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1633 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1637 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1638 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1639 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1640 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1641 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1642 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1643 * Massive Matroska improvements
1644 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1646 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1647 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1648 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1649 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1650 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1652 Decoders / Encoders:
1653 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1654 * PNG decoder/encoder
1655 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1656 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1659 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1662 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1663 * Brand new SAP module
1664 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1665 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1666 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1667 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1668 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1669 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1673 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1676 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1677 * Image file video output (png)
1678 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1679 * Improvements to wall video filter
1680 * Support for font color and opacity
1686 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1687 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1688 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1692 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1693 - Improved preferences
1694 - Improvements to the wizard
1695 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1697 - Redesigned playlist
1698 - Improved preferences
1700 - Support for multiple actions
1703 - Support for the new playlist system
1705 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1708 * Screensaver disabling fix
1709 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1710 * Support for no-decoration windows
1713 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1714 * The OpenGL video output is back
1715 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1716 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1717 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1718 is not yet available in the new module
1719 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1722 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1731 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1734 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1737 The following languages were added:
1743 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1744 --------------------------------
1747 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1748 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1751 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1752 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1753 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1756 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1759 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1762 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1765 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1766 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1767 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1771 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1773 * Support of playlist group announcement
1776 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1777 --------------------------------
1780 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1781 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1782 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1783 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1784 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1785 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1788 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1789 (Stream your desktop)
1790 * Improved DVD support:
1791 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1792 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1793 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1794 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1795 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1796 (selection of titles/chapters).
1799 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1800 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1801 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1802 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1803 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1804 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1805 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1806 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1807 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1808 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1811 * G.726 audio support
1812 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1813 * MPEG-4 text support
1814 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1815 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1816 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1820 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1821 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1822 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1823 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1824 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1825 * DVB subtitles encoder
1826 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1827 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1829 * Text track muxing for mp4
1830 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1831 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1832 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1833 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1834 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1835 * Improved ASF muxer
1837 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1838 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1839 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1842 * New audio equalizer filter
1843 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1844 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1845 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1846 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1849 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1850 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1851 with support for effects.
1852 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1853 - New filters can be streamed.
1854 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1855 - Centralized scaling and blending
1857 - "time", to display current time
1858 - "marq", to display a marquee
1861 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1862 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1863 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1864 * A few skins2 improvements
1865 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1866 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1867 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1868 * Improved CORBA control module
1871 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1872 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1873 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1876 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1877 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1878 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1881 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1882 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1883 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1884 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1885 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1888 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1891 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1892 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1895 * Server/client network synchronization module
1896 * VBrick streams fully supported
1897 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1901 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1902 --------------------------------
1905 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1906 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1907 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1908 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1911 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1912 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1913 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1914 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1915 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1916 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1917 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1920 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1921 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1922 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1923 * Improved directory access module.
1924 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1925 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1926 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1927 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1928 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1931 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1932 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1933 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1936 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1937 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1938 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1941 * Improved session announcement system.
1942 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1943 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1944 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1945 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1946 * Improved transrater.
1947 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1948 * New configuration system.
1949 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1952 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1953 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1954 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1955 * Supports scheduling.
1956 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1957 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1960 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1961 - Ability to embed video output.
1962 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1963 - Lots of improvements.
1964 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1965 - New design and set of icons.
1966 - Ability to embed video output.
1967 - Support for hotkeys.
1968 - Support for bookmarks.
1970 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1971 - Better hotkeys handling.
1974 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1975 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1976 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1977 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1980 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1981 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1982 * Improved Windows installer.
1988 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1989 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1992 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1993 ---------------------------------
1996 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1997 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2000 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2001 --------------------------------
2004 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2005 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2008 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2009 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2010 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2011 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2014 * Internal improvments
2015 * Improved import/export
2018 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2020 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2021 small and strange formats.
2023 * New MOD audio demux.
2024 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2025 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2026 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2027 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2030 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2031 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2032 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2038 * New opengl video output plugin.
2041 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2042 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2045 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2046 --------------------------------
2049 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2050 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2051 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2052 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2053 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2054 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2055 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2056 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2059 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2064 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2065 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2066 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2067 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2068 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2069 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2070 * Better Icecast support.
2071 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2072 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2075 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2076 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2077 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2078 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2079 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2080 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2081 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2084 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2085 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2086 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2087 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2088 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2089 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2090 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2091 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2092 * Preliminary RTP support.
2093 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2098 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2099 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2101 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2102 - Improvements and help in preferences
2103 - New streaming wizard
2104 - Revised Disc Open menu
2106 - Improvements of the standard pages
2107 - Support for new commands
2108 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2111 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2112 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2115 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2116 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2117 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2118 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2119 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2120 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2121 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2122 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2123 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2126 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2128 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2129 * Support for Panther.
2130 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2131 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2134 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2135 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2136 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2137 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2138 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2139 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2140 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2141 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2144 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2145 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2146 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2149 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2152 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2153 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2154 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2155 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2158 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2159 --------------------------------
2162 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2165 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2166 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2169 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2170 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2173 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2176 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2177 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2180 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2183 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2186 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2187 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2191 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2192 --------------------------------
2195 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2196 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2200 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2201 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2202 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2204 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2205 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2208 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2211 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2214 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2215 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2219 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2220 --------------------------------
2223 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2224 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2228 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2229 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2230 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2231 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2232 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2235 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2236 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2237 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2240 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2241 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2242 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2245 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2246 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2247 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2248 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2249 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2252 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2253 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2254 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2257 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2260 * Improved build system.
2261 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2262 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2263 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2264 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2267 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2268 --------------------------------
2271 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2274 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2275 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2276 * Video 4 Linux support
2277 * CD Digital Audio support
2278 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2281 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2282 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2283 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2284 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2287 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2288 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2289 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2290 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2291 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2292 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2293 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2296 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2297 * New HTTP remote control interface
2300 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2301 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2302 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2303 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2306 * New reset option for the preferences
2307 * You can set your language in the prefences
2308 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2309 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2310 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2311 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2314 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2315 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2316 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2319 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2320 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2321 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2322 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2323 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2324 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2325 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2326 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2327 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2328 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2331 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2332 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2333 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2334 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2335 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2336 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2337 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2340 * Interface localization
2341 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2342 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2343 * New full-featured Preferences window
2346 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2347 --------------------------------
2350 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2351 * support for skins at the interface level
2352 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2353 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2354 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2355 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2356 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2359 * fixed HTTP redirects
2360 * support for opening an entire directory
2361 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2362 * new video4linux access plug-in
2363 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2366 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2367 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2368 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2371 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2372 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2373 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2374 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2375 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2376 * new codec for raw I420 video
2377 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2380 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2381 (although it still misses some important features)
2382 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2385 * new HTTP output support
2386 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2387 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2390 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2393 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2396 * reorderable playlist
2397 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2398 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2399 * support for mono audio output devices
2400 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2401 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2402 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2403 * the messages window remembers more lines
2404 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2405 * http and ogg stream output options
2406 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2409 * new skinnable interface
2410 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2412 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2413 * support for FLAC audio format
2414 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2416 * network tab in the interface
2417 * "apply" handling in preferences
2420 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2421 ---------------------------------
2424 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2425 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2426 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2427 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2429 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2430 * DTS S/PDIF support
2433 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2434 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2435 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2436 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2439 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2440 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2443 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2446 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2449 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2451 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2452 * rc interface is now fully useable
2453 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2456 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2457 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2458 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2459 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2460 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2462 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2463 * support for mouse gestures
2464 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2467 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2468 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2471 * improved ID3 tag detection
2472 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2473 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2474 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2476 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2479 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2480 ---------------------------------
2483 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2484 English was set as the preferred language
2487 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2488 --------------------------------
2491 * new mouse gesture interface
2492 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2496 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2497 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2498 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2501 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2502 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2506 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2509 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2510 without the user consent
2513 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2515 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2516 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2517 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2520 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2521 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2522 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2523 * playlist enhancements
2524 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2525 * new step forward/step backward commands
2526 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2527 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2528 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2531 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2532 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2533 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2536 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2537 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2540 * native video output is working again
2541 * only commandline interface support
2542 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2545 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2546 --------------------------------
2549 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2550 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2551 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2552 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2553 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2554 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2555 and A/52 streams are supported)
2556 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2561 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2562 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2563 * VCD entry points support
2564 * VCD image file support
2567 * support for *.asf format
2568 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2569 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2570 * support for ogg encapsulation
2571 * support for raw DV format
2572 * support for *.wav format
2573 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2576 Stream discovery & playlists:
2577 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2578 * support for .m3u file format
2579 * support for .asx file format
2580 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2583 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2584 (only available with the .avi demux)
2585 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2586 * support for raw PCM data
2587 * support for Cinepak video codec
2588 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2589 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2590 * support for Xvid codec
2591 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2592 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2593 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2595 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2597 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2600 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2603 * new WxWindows interface
2604 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2605 device and the channels configuration
2606 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2607 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2608 format that VLC can play
2609 * new swedish translation
2610 * enhancements of the playlist window
2611 * new messages window to see debug info
2612 * fixed a few crashes
2615 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2616 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2617 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2618 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working